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working night shifts

honestly muscle ups are not necessary at all. i don't get the hype about them apart from looking cool

Delete this thread, this is a fitness board, not a cop out board

yeah that sucks. you should probably not train as much i guess

There is no real link between frogstand progression and hand stand push ups. I could do tucked planches to hand stands but basically no handstand push ups.

Muscle-ups aren't a natural transition from pullups. Try doing explosive pullups where you get your chest to the bar instead of just your chin. After that, try to go midsection to bar.
More than anything, work on your explosive power.

Also, if pike pushups fuck up your elbows, chances are your elbows are shit, or you're doing something wrong. Do you elbows hurt doing normal pushups?

Muscle-ups require significant power for the pulling motion. It's a solid exercise.

>working out with your body isn't fitness, guys!
Why do you idiots always invade the BWG's?

So people who come on here for fitness don't buy into this 2nd tier workout cop out meme.

That's her new or her old ass.
Can't tell.

Well you can get fit by it so it isn't a cop out. You wont get HUGE by it.

Why do you assume people have the same fitness goals as you?

My fitness goal is to be athletic as possible and in order to do that, I need to lift weights.

Athletic means nothing - what sport do you want to be good at?

I'm sure it's new, she was very petite prior to going under the knife.

R-r-rollerblading

Im sure if most people were honest about their motivations for fitness they would just say they want to impress people and gain respect.

I don't care about lifting I want to be able to do impressive stuff with my body. It takes much longer but I'd say it's much more satisfying, at least to me.

anyone else working towards full planches? anything allowing b-boy junior esq handstands is good for me!

I was being honest, it's so I can be a better blader. So I can fall with out injury, so I the strength to boost out of a half pipe or jump onto a high ledge rail, so I can spin/flip with more confidence and percision. So I add to the ahsthetic of the trick by being in shape myself.

Iam fat but losing weight ive been dieting and doing some cardio.
Is it better to do bodyweight exercises before doing freeweights?

No not really. You want to be building as much muscle as you can to raise your basa metabolic rate.

I don't see how building huge muscles as is generally the purpose of lifting weights makes you more robust? Being comfortable with your body weight is surely going to make you better when you blade because you only blade with your body?

Naw, I need heavy squats and deadlifts otherwise I can get injured. It's really hard to become greatly robust past athletic without steroids.

Fuck.. I got a manual labor job for the next month and a half. Few days in and my lower back is already tired enough, that practicing handstands or planche is considerably more difficult, not to mention handstand pushups, muscle ups and such.

How do you at least keep your gains when doing something like that? 10 hours a day, 6 days a week on your feet and lifting some light 10-15kg shit constantly.

Should I just cut down on everything else for the first week or so until I've gotten used to the work, then pick it up again?

Been eating like a madman now as well. Although I reckon a month and a half shouldn't be long enough a period to gain any fat, or lose my gains, right?

I don't think you will lose gains I have seen plenty of builders especially plasterers with great forearms and strength once you adapt to it

3x11 is fine and all but just do more pull-ups, weighted ones are also very valuable.
I think if you get to a max of 15 pullups you got the strength for a muscle up.
Also this
I can do many muscle ups but never make them part of a workout.

>caring about whores

I'd say you should focus on exercises that don't make your back hurt while you work since it might be dangerous